that protecting human life, protecting marriage, and protecting freedom of conscience are foundational for creating and maintaining strong families, caring communities and a just society.

Christians of all denominations who subscribe to the historic Christian faith to sign the Westminster 2010 Declaration of Christian Conscience.

upon all those in UK positions of leadership, responsibility and influence to pledge to respect, uphold and protect the right of Christians to hold these beliefs and to act according to Christian conscience.

Westminster 2010
was initially drafted, as a service to the wider church, by senior
staff at Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) with input from a number of
the key signatories. This website is produced and administered by CMF. The key signatories have endorsed the declaration itself but are not responsible for the content of the website.

Britain is coming under increasing pressure to legalise same-sex marriage and Prime Minister David Cameron is determined to drive it through. A consultation on same-sex marriage closed in Scotland in December 2011 and a new consultation is being launched next month in Westminster to consider how (not if!) legalisation should proceed in England and Wales. Many people are asking ‘Why not?’

The Westminster Declaration of Christian Conscience is supporting the Coalition for Marriage petition to retain the current definition of marriage as 'the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others'

A new poll has found that most Britons think Christians should be able to
follow their conscience in the workplace without facing disciplinary action from
their employers. Out of more than 1,000 adults polled by ComRes, 72% said Christians should be
able to refuse to act against their conscience without being penalised by their
employer.

The former Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir Ali, has urged
Christians to consider voting for those candidates who are most likely
to uphold Christian values and freedoms and who have a realistic chance
of winning in Thursday’s election. The former Bishop is currently
spear-heading ‘Christians and Candidates' hustings around the country.

Christians have responded with huge enthusiasm to the launch of the Westminster 2010 Declaration of Christian Conscience which has clocked up over 20,000 signatories and 2,000 ‘Facebook fans’ in ten days since its launch on Easter Sunday.

Thirty senior Christian leaders, including the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, will launch a Christian Manifesto the ‘Westminster 2010: Declaration of Christian Conscience’ on Easter Sunday.